Re: Lost Desktop after upgrading to GNOME 2.8 on Testing

[Eduardo Díaz <ediazuri@gmail.com>]

Fixed for me.

I've found that the problem was caused by not being able to access an 
already mounted NFS share after starting the firewall.

To clarify, as part of the boot process, the NFS shares of other host 
get mounted localy on my machine. After that, lokkit starts up and 
activates the firewall which seems to be far too restrictive and does 
not allow outgoing traffic for NFS.

If, under this conditions, I try to do something like 'df -Th' it, 
obviously, gets hung indefinitely.

The problem with the GNOME desktop gets solved if I stop the firewall.

Thanks for your support anyway.

Eduardo



Eduardo Díaz wrote:

> Hi,
>
> last weekend I upgraded (unintentionally) from GNOME 2.6 to 2.8 on my
> Debian Testing (x86, kernel 2.6.8).
>
> After upgrading, and before login/out and restarting gdm, everything
> was working perfectly.
>
> But, after logout/in (and restarting gdm), I got no Nautilus normal
> functionality.
>
> This means that:
> - I get a grey desktop (no wallpaper, no icons, nothing).
> - I cannot launch the file browser by clicking on its icon.
> - I cannot launch the file browser from a shell but I still get no
> feedback message.
> - Nautilus is in fact running, but it leaves no error on /var/log/syslog.
> - I experience the same with the root user.
> - No errors are coming up.
>
> Things I guess related to Nautilus or the desktop are not working
> either (such as the desktop background chooser which comes up but
> hangs in grey).
>
> The rest is working as usual:
> - The panel and its applets.
> - A lot of GNOME applications (I have not tested everything, but all
> tests I did were successful).
> - All other apps.
>
> I assume this information is probably not complete enough, but I'm not
> really sure where to look next.
>
> Could anybody please help me on solving this?
>
> Thank you very much in advance.
>
> Kind regards,
> Eduardo
>
>